only comms I mod are the main BBC's Robin Hood ones, robinhoodbbc and its iterations and that's a tiny (less than 1k) in comparison comm. Where it's genially accepted that I'm pouty and bitchy and power crazed (they've been known to rate my mod posts with points taken off for lack of style and obscure threats), partly because I stated it in the user info. We're talking a fandom of such smallness that someone did set up a rival comm early on, but it got so few posts that they got bored and deleted it - partly because everyone either belonged to the main one or had the newsletter friended, so not exactly any point to it. Mind you, I only set it up so I'd be able to keep a leash on possible wank - I don't even create any content aside from mod posts, and the only time I gave co-mod powers to jamjar was when I went away for the internet for a while, and she de-modded herself when she missed too many. Having someone take it away would be... weird.

I'm still not entirely sure that giving me maintainer powers on thedarkisrising was an entirely wise choice on the mod's part, because all I was expecting was to be given the co-mod position, on the exceedingly shaky foundation that I wanted to go through the memories and tag all the posts. That's all I've ever done, and the only thing she knew about me? long-term member of the fandom who writes once in a blue moon snarky fic who runs the main slash site for it, and posts occasionally in full snark mode. Gave me the shivers a bit, due to the 'er... you don't know me, why the hell did you give me that much power?' factor. I mean, admittedly she was probably looking for someone who's more active in the fandom than she seems to have been in a good couple of years to just keep an active eye on the comm, but *still*.

Does bring to mind the case of indeedsir (main Jeeves and Wooster comm), where one of the comm members sought the opinion of the rest of the comm and then successfully petitioned lj to turn over the maintainer rights. The original mod had been absent from lj (deleted account and everything) for a good while, and said user wanted a chance to do stuff with it - tags, memories, design, etc. They also petitioned lj using the (very valid) argument that a lot of the posts contained nc-17 content and thus the comm did need a mod, with links to the post where she'd canvassed opinion.